Jane Campion won an Oscar in 1993 for her original screenplay “The Piano.” But should she have? “The fine print in the recently published Oxford Companion to Australian Film suggests otherwise. In its entry for The Piano, the volume notes that the film was in fact ‘based on the novel, The Story of a New Zealand River, by Jane Mander,’ though the book was ‘uncredited.’ It’s a bold and controversial charge, and one that has stirred up a considerable storm Down Under.” – Lingua Franca